One commentators reaction to the federal budget deregulation of university fees: The changes to the funding of tertiary education will have two effects on the arts and the humanities. The first of these will be to accelerate the tendency of wealthy local students to undertake their first degrees in international universities. As the difference between local fees and international fees shrinks there is every incentive for the children of the rich to travel for a broad-based humanities education. The second is that those children of the working class who make it to university will be under pressure from both family and society to undertake a utilitarian degree, and not waste time and money on growing their intellect (Joanna Mendelssohn, University of New South Wales). This is a very frightening prospect for those of us in the humanities at Australian universities. . .
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:45:56 +0000
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